What Are The Best Activities For 6 Months Old Babies

Having a baby in your house is very enjoyable and fun to because aside from them being cute and adorable, they also relieve you of your stress. However, it’s very important that you know the proper way of dealing with them especially if they are 6-months-old because this is the time where they are transitioning from being a baby to a toddler.

With this, it makes perfect sense for you to interact with your baby and play games and do activities with them. And because we want to help you out, we’re going to show you the best activities for 6-months-old babies that will surely help them in their growth and development.

Read

The best and highly recommended activity to do with your 6-months-old baby is to read. Reading is very important because this helps them improve their mental and intellectual capacity, making them smarter and wiser at the same time. Babies are known to easily acquire and process information, making them learn new things at a very fast pace. Because of this, it would be best if you give them a lot of learning materials.

However, it’s not just about giving it to them, it’ also about experiencing the reading process with them. Interaction is key to make your baby interested in what they’re reading or perhaps just seeing, knowing that they still don’t know how to read. This is also the perfect time for you to teach them how to read. As you’re going through the pages, it would be best if you change your voice as you read the lines of different characters.

Peek-a-boo​

Another highly recommended activity you can try with your child is Peek-a-boo. This is one of the best activities you can do with your baby because this will help improve their motor skills, object discrimination, and decision-making capability. Aside from that, it also encourages them to think and to find out ways on how they can get the object hiding under the blanket.

Peek-a-boo lets them explore the world by themselves, and it also rewards them afterward once they get the object hiding underneath the blanket. To do this, all you need to have is any object and a blanket. Hide the object underneath the blanket and expose a small part of it just for your baby to see. Then ask your baby "Where is it?" thereby prompting them to find and touch the slightly exposed object hiding under the blanket.

Clap-With-Me​

Babies, especially 6-months-old ones, don’t need to go through complicated or complex games or activities just to get their brains and muscles stimulated. Even a simple “clap with me” activity can prove to be very beneficial to them in a lot of ways. The first benefit that they get from it is that your baby will learn about making sounds. This will improve their hearing ability.It will also help them learn how to rhyme, which is a basic building block in becoming an eloquent speaker as they grow older.

This speeds up their language development and speaking skills. In doing a “clap with me” activity, all you need to do is to clap your hands and let your baby follow you. However, you should follow a certain clapping pattern that your baby will also follow. Not only does this help improve their hearing and speaking abilities, but it also develops their motor skills.​

Shake the Bottle ​

Another cool activity you can try with your baby is Shake the Bottle. This is a fun and exciting new way to expose your baby to different sounds. You start doing this by preparing a soft and smooth bottle. Place rice and pasta inside it and then place its top lid cover. Give it to your baby and let them freely shake it up. This way, they’ll hear new things that they won’t probably hear without the rice or pasta inside the bottle.

This is very important for your baby’s growth and development because they need to hear a variety of sounds for them to be creative. Creativity is vital in every baby because this is the fundamental trait that they need to develop while they are still young.

Rhyme Time ​

You might also want to do a Rhyme Time activity with your child. Among the given activities, this is probably one of the best if not the best way to boost your baby’s speaking and communication skills. What you need to do in this activity is to sing a song with wording that rhyme together such as “Bump, bump, bump, thump, thump, thump, and jump, jump, jump.”

It’s through saying these rhyming words that you instill to your baby how the certain words are spoken. The way you utter them and the sound you make when speaking them is what speeds up your baby’s speaking skills. It’s through this that you’re making it easier for your baby to speak your language as they grow older.​

Hand Shadow Figures

You might have done this when you're camping or when the electricity is out. Hand shadow figures are not just fun but are also very educational to your 6-month-old baby. Why is that so? Well, it's because of a mix of both visual and motor skill. You do this activity with your baby inside a room at night time. Prepare a small spotlight or flashlight and turn off the lights. Turn on the spotlight or flashlight and then use your hands to create shadow figures.

Your baby will surely be amazed at this. Once you've shown them how let them freely discover how to do it by themselves. They'll be surprised to see that their hands can form into a variety of big shadow figures in the light. This improves your 6-month-old baby’s eye movement skills, attention span, social skills, visual sensory stimulation, and body movement. It sure is loaded with a truck-load of benefits which is why it’s a must-do for you and your baby.​

​ Puzzles

You can also play puzzles with your child. You can buy any puzzle from your local toy store or department store. It would be best if the puzzle has interesting and educational characters or places in it so that your baby can also indulge themselves in the look and feel of the puzzle's place. Though letting your baby play with the puzzle is a bit difficult because they're most likely just going to grab and throw it away into different directions, it's still worth the effort to teach them how to play with it.

You can solve the puzzle piece with yourself first and then let your baby do it afterward. Clap your hands to cheer them while they're solving the puzzle. This activity will enhance their fine motor skills, problem-solving skills, as well as visual skills.​

Why It's Important to Do these Activities?​

It's very important for you to do these activities mentioned above because your 6-month-old baby is at the stage of his life where he can absorb a lot of information and experiences, process them, and turn them into usable and practical learning.

This is the perfect time for you to introduce them to the real world and teach them the basics of the things that you’re going to teach them and that they’re going to experience as they grow older. Having the fundamentals is the key to having a properly grown and developed baby.You can also watch this video for more baby activities you and your baby can try.​

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Final Thoughts

With all of these being said, you can see that there are a lot of things you need to do to make sure that your baby develops and grows properly. It's in doing these things that you can boost your baby's mental, intellectual, physical, and sensory skills. Though you might experience difficulties or challenges along the way, it still is worth it.

Remember that your baby’s proper growth and the experiences that they underwent in their first year of life are the building blocks of what they are to become when they grow older. With this, it’s important that you take it seriously to ensure that they experience the right things in their first year, or specifically in their first six months of life.

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